Welcome back to another episode of Arnold's Pump Club.

I hear from a lot of people who have just started their fitness journeys.

I see your frustration, your struggles, you send emails about how the new exercises hurt. They're hard.

Changing what you eat to be healthier isn't easy either. You tell me about your

missteps. I hear all about how you miss workouts or cheat on your

diet. No matter what the mistake is you write to me like it's the end of the world.

It's one thing to complain and get frustrated.

But here's the real problem.

I know a lot of you give up after these failures and it's time to stop

quitting on yourself every time you hit a setback and be useful I said failure has never killed a dream.

Quitting kills every dream it touches.

When you are building new habits it's going to be hard.

You're going to have missed days.

You're going to fail.

You need to plan for that.

You need to learn to forgive yourself and just get back on the plan instead of beating yourself up and quitting out of frustration.

You want perfection, but none of us are perfect, not even me.

I have days where someone puts delicious pastries or ice cream in

front of me and my famous discipline disappears. And then the next day I just return to my healthy habits.

I don't give up and quit.

I can tell you this works because I also hear from people who are a year or two

into their fitness journeys.

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